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- H. H. D-ILLE & E. W. MoGUIRE. APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND CUTTING FABRICS. No. 376,642.

Patented Jan. 17, 1888.

UNITED: STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. DILLE AND ELWOOD w. MCGUIRE, 0F RICnMoND, INDIANA, ASSIGNORS ro THE DILLE & MCGUIRE MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

OF SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR. MEASURING AND ou'rTmc FABRlCS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,642, dated January 17, 1888.

Application filed May 1, 1886. Serial No. 200,867. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY H. DILLE and ELWOOD W. MCGUIRE, of Richmond, in the county of Wayne, and in the State of Indiana,

side elevation of the measuring device and the part of the machine-frame for holding "the same, and Fig. 3 a detail perspective view of the measuring device and the means for holding the same separated.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The object of our invention is to provide a machine or apparatus for holding, measuring, and cutting wire cloth, architects paper, Window-shade material, 850.; and to this end our invention consists in the machine or apparatus and in the parts thereof, constructed, arranged, and combined as hereinafter specified. I

In the drawings, A designates the frame of our machine, which can be of any desired shape, but which we prefer to make of two similarly-shaped ends, A A, each consisting of an annular part, a, resting on two standards or feet, aa, and having within and made in one piece with the annular part the star-shaped frame or piece a The corresponding feet or standards,a at, on the opposite ends of the frame are connected by bars or beams A A In bearings on the upper portions of the frame ends are journaled the opposite ends of the shaft B, carrying the two heads 0 G, fixed on it just inside the frame ends. Such heads are, like the reel'hcads shown and described in my application Serial No. 197,745, new pending, provided with series of opposite sockets, c c, in which sockets are supported the opposite ends of rods or rollers B B, for receiving and carrying separate rolls or bolts of the material to be handled. To facilitate the insertion and removal of the rod ends in their sockets, such site ends of a rod have been properly inserted a in its sockets, the portion of the socket ends or bottoms around the central openings therein will normally engage the rod ends and prevent such rod from moving endwise, so as to disengage either of its ends from its socket.

To prevent a roll of material from coming unwound accidentally after it has been placed on its respective rod,we prefer to use the plates D D, constructed as fully set forth in our other application referred to, and engaging the roll ends. To forwardly-extending brackets c a on. the front of the frame A A are attached the opposite ends of the bar E, parallel with the axis of rotation of the connected heads 0 O, and preferably angular in crosssection.

On one of the frame ends, just above the bar I E, is a socket, F, adapted to receive the measure G,preferably of the well-known kind, having a measuring-tape and a retracting or winding spring mechanism for winding back the measuring-tape when it has been pulled out and released.

The ordinary spring-stop device,indicated at g, for engaging and disengaging the spring- Winding mechanism can be used or not, as desired. WVithout it the tape would of course be wound back directly as soon as its end was released.

The socket, as shown, fits the disk-shaped case of the measure closely, and is closed on its inner side, so as to afford bearing for the inner side of the measure-case. On its front side the socket is provided with an opening, H, to admit the outward passage of the measuringtape close to the top of the bar E.

When the measure G has been properly placed in its socket,it is fastened there by the set-screw g, screwed down to engage the measure-casing, as indicated in the drawings.

The bar E, over which the goods to be measured and out are drawn from the roll, forms a guide for the movable cutter I, adapted to cut the goods off on a line parallel with the bar. Such cutter can be of any of the forms shown and described in our other application referred to. In the drawings of the present case we show only one form, which consists of the stationary blade K, fixed to a sleeve, K, sliding on the bar, and a pivoted and handled knife, IQ, operating in conjunction with such fixed blade with a shearing action.

The operation of our machine or apparatus is brielly as follows: Itolls of material of the various kinds or dimensions having been placed on the different rods of the reel-like carrier, when a piece from any one of the rolls is desired, the carrier is rotated to bring such roll down to the bar E. A spring-stop, for locking the carrier when it has been rotated to bring the desired roll into position, can be employed. Such a stop is indicated at L, but need not be specifically described or shown, as it is similar in construction and operation to the one described and shown in our other application. The desired roll having been brought into position close to bar E, and of course parallel to it, the end of the material on the roll and the end of the measuring-tape are pulled forward together over the bar until the gradnations on the tape indicate the amount of fabric in feet and inches desired. The tape is then released, and the fabric resting on the bar E is cut close to the edge thereof by moving and operating the cutter along the bar.

here no catch or stop is used for the spring rewinding mechanism for the l'neasuring-tape, such tape will, as soon as released, be immediately wound up out of the way, and be ready for use for another measuring. catch or stop is used, but a touch is necessary to cause the tape to be reeoiled or rewound again.

\Vhcther rewinding immediately or not,the tape is, when dropped, after the measuring 01' the fabric, out of the way of the cutter entirely.

It a piece desired oil of another roll, the revolving roll or carrier is unlocked and rotated to bring such other roll into position close to bar I], and automatically locked again \Vhere the e by the spring-stop. Such locking-stop is not at all necessary, and can be dispensed with, if desired.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is- 1. A machine for holding and measuring fabrics having the guide over which the goods are drawn, a taperncasure arranged close to the guide, so that the tape, as drawn out therefrom, passes close to and at right angles to the guide, and the cutter moving alongthe guide, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The machine having means for holding a roll of goods so as to allow of its being unwound, a guide-bar over which the goods pass as unwound, a ta )e-measure arranged so that its tape can be drawn over the gniddbar close to the goods and at right angles to the guide'bar, and a cutter moving along said bar, substantially as and for the purpose shown.

3. A machine for holding, measuring, and cutting fabrics, having a guide for the cutter, a cutter moving along the guide, a tape-measure at one end of such guide, and a revolving carrier adapted to receive and hold several rolls of goods, so that such rolls can be brought successively near and parallel to the guide, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In combination with bar E, the tapemeasure socket just above the same, the tapemeasure in the socket, and the sct'serew engaging the case of the measure, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. A machine for holding, measuring, and cutting goods, having the revolving heads and rods carried thereby for receiving and holding the goods, the cutter-guide arranged parallel to the roll-receiving rods, the cutter movable along such guide, and the tapemeasure situated close to the guide, substantially as and for the purpose shown.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 6th day of March, 1886.

H. H. DILLE. ELlVOOD \V. hIeGUll-tld.

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